Channel: EpicLLOYD

Category: Entertainment

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Description: Stream or Download this Song - hyperurl.co/aBadNameForRappers Follow me on IG @theEpicLLOYD Filmed on Location in the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Special thanks to Linda and Freddie. *********************************************************************** So this song is a true story. Hopefully the lyrics tell it clear enough, but it's been burned into my mind for most of my life now and I just was never able to get the words right for it until a few months back. I think everybody goes through ups and downs with their parents, and fathers and sons have a special kind of tension from time to time. At the end of the day though, and when the chips are down, I think most parents would do just about anything for their children...including hurl yourself into harms way...and by "way" I mean the edge of a waterfall. Thanks Dad, I'll never forget that shit. This one is for you. -eL *********************************************************************** Original Song Written and Performed by EpicLLOYD Beat by: Allrounda Productions Song Mixed by : Jose "Choco" Reynoso Directed by: Kurt Schmidt Director of Photography: Andrew "AK" Kurchinski Production Coordinator: Shaun Lewin Editor: Clarence Gaines Produced by Atul Singh for Maker Studios. *********************************************************************** LYRICS I see memories like pictures, snaps and flashes captured images plastered to the walls of my brain gotta strain sometimes through my dust covered mind but it’s one of these times that’s inspired this rhyme - flash I’m 12 or maybe 11 my little brother Travis is just 6 or 7 I see my older brother Kirk, Trav, my Dad and me all hiking up this peek through a creek See I’m from the East, where it’s covered with trees and leaves and between branches are hidden many mountainous streams I feel the breeze on my face from that mountain I see us hiking round the river it has flowing straight down it It carved the boulders til they molded around it and the waterfalls sprayed off like upside fountains 3 stories each and them shits were steep And the algae made’em slick you slide off like Weirs’ beach If you dare walk a top that rock with bare feet And then - flash "Oh shit grab Travis!" but he's just out of reach and he slipped… I never could have caught him or stopped the fall And even if I could, I don’t know if I’d had the balls Here’s my little kid brother sliding right for the drop 15 foot down smack onto the rocks then flash - to slow motion flash - the image stops then flash of pale skin, here comes Pops snatches Travis up by the back of both arms tosses to him the shore and then headfirst - flash - gone… slip Now that cold river water is pretty as hell but it sure don’t break a fall so well He fell straight down, smashing off the jagged granite bashed his head and his legs before his body landed 4 inch puddle with a rocky splash He's lying all gashed up in a crumpled mass and now everything is flashes I’m looking in his face dazed, confused, shock I never see him this way I see my Pop’s he's bloody Eyes buggy Seeing fuzzy His expression is blank a skewed and funny and now I'm running and I'm holding up his shoulders I'm wishing I could carry more, wishing I was older doing everything I can to keep him up Swatting horse flies from his head they came out for the blood I wish I could grasp all the pictures from this trip but the older I get the more the memories slip… slip Bashed but not broken he’s a tough old bastard said he vaulted off them rocks like he was back in gymnastics And the doctor said he’s lucky, fact is if he hadn’t fall like that would have definitely killed Travis He passed a test for his sons I guess we watched Pop jump first, no concern for nets He squashed any second guessing in a split second made sense of conversations that had left us disconnected without a lot of time for wrong or right he flashed his true colors and i captured them bright I try to live that way and remember the sight Pops of the Falls bravest thing I seen in my life.